Alexander Setting Fire to Persepolis

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink with brown wash over graphite on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 24.5 x 18.7 cm (9 5/8 x 7 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

1988.4.1

Artists / Makers

Bernhard Rode (artist) German, 1725 - 1797

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in brown ink: An die Könige / I 20.; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: E Rode.; lower right verso in graphite: -TET-; vertical along right edge in graphite: COAA/NRR

Provenance

Unidentified collector (S, not in Lugt); C.G. Matthes (Lugt 2871); (Eva Dencker-Winkler); purchased 1988 by NGA.

Associated Names

Dencker, Eva S.

Bibliography

1987: Eva Dencker-Winkler, Zurich: Spring 1987, no.19.

1989: Kaufmann 1989, cat.no. 43.